Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00015)

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I do not think that Katherine Tingley was a pacifist or that she taught that Theosophy is pacifism.
Nevertheless she warned from 1996-1914 before the outbreak of what was later called WW I.
But to me the backward conclusion while she proclaimed peace and arranged peace conferences she was a pacifist is wrong.

While from one side it is surprizing and interesting do find an Adyar organ to deal with KT after 76 years the misleading bias based on misunderstandings and producing further misunderstanding is a little bit shocking.

As Joseph Fussell wrote so well during WW II in the Point Loma magazine the doctrine about war is since endless time secret because it is an art, and a dangerous art if misused.
Recent times imply that there are good reason not to give the higher teachings out.

But I am quite sure that KT - if she were with us here today in the physical - would also oppose thre recent US wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and the allegedly coming August war against Iran.

Frank




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